Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:33:35 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Matteo Riondato <matteo@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults periodic.conf Message-ID: <20060131010335.GQ91655@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20060131005711.GB16211@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <200601301233.k0UCXiKq085748@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060130123525.GD83922@FreeBSD.org> <20060130215816.GC91655@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060130235717.J95776@fledge.watson.org> <20060131005711.GB16211@comp.chem.msu.su>
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--qCGCnlPZoKZX9mDP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 3:57:11 +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:58:19PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: >> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> On Monday, 30 January 2006 at 15:35:25 +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: >>>> M> Make df output in periodic mail human readable >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>> >>> *sigh* >>> >>> Not everybody is human. >> >> My daily script parsers certainly aren't. I quite like being able to pull >> in a mailbox of old daily output and plot disk space use over time. The >> problem with df -h is that as the numbers get bigger, the granularity >> becomes very, very coarse. I.e., you can only see changes at 1GB >> granularity for big disks, so you can't actually usefully track in any >> detail daily usage rates. > > I think that if the war of computers against humans ever begins, > it will break out from an event like this commit. And then some > geek folks will certainly come down on the side of computers. The > granularity of "df -h" is too coarse even to, ahem, some readers > of the list, keep alone the scripts. Quite naturally, they dread > being treated as inadequately human some day soon. > > To help keep peace, let's support the campaign against denying > computers their right to get complete and uncensored information > in plain text or, under very special conditions, XML :-) It's actually heartening to see so many people agreeing with me on this one; I wasn't expecting it. We should recognize that neither way is a solution. The solution would be to make this kind of thing easily configurable. That would mean something like a knob DFFLAGS in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. I'd argue (of course) for it to be -k by default (though I'd personally change it to -m). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --qCGCnlPZoKZX9mDP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD3rdnIubykFB6QiMRAgL3AKCWawq80rPbQtsBVlwre1dKYyfEsgCgjOwL lq5zmw02/mxH8HRDX8kyS/s= =PNE2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qCGCnlPZoKZX9mDP--
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